Is the lack of Saturday matches becoming a problem?

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MCFC1993

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MCFC1993 said:
9 teams in Europe.
4 playing on a Thursday.

Be fuck all games played on a Saturday next season.
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I posted the above quote after Crystal Palace won last night and I do think this could start to become a problem.

We had just 15 league games on a Saturday last year, we were lucky 9 were at home. 39% of our league games. The whole league only had 46% of the 380 games on a Saturday. Can see this being an important factor in season ticket renewals across the whole league.

Now I don't know about everyone else but I hate late Sunday games and Monday games. I'd rather us play Friday night than those 2 days.

Sky have been pushing this 2pm slot on a Sunday. They love it because they get to avoid the blackout.

Is it annoying anyone else?
 
UEFA ruining the league as usual. Half of the league is now in a UEFA competition, so they can't play on Saturday. Personally, I've been more annoyed by the constant late kick offs. I live in Asia and work weekends, and I feel like this season, every other week I'm looking at the schedule and finding out that the game isn't finishing until 1 or 2am. It does my head in. 3pm kick offs work perfectly for me. But not only are we often 5:30 on a Saturday, they've also introduced this 8pm bullshit.
 
It would actually make a lot more sense if they binned off Saturdays save for teams playing the previous Thursday and the following Tuesday. If Sunday was exclusively for the PL there’d be no worrying about blackouts and the like and at least we, the fans, could at least do some rudimentary planning for the weekend.
 
HelloCity said:
Is there any evidence to suggest Sunday PL games have lower attendances than Saturday PL games?
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Official figures would suggest not:
MD2 Spurs - Sat 12:30 - 52,491
MD4 United - Sun 16:30 - 52,534
MD6 Burnley - Sat 15:00 - 52,427
MD8 Everton - Sat 15:00 - 52,498
MD10 Bournemouth - Sun 16:30 - 52,387
MD11 Liverpool - Sun 16:30 - 52,511
MD13 Leeds - Sat 15:00 - 52,483
MD15 Sunderland - Sat 15:00 - 52,436
MD17 West Ham - Sat 15:00 - 52,454
MD20 Chelsea - Sun 17:30 - 52,503
MD21 Brighton - Wed 19:30 - 51,728
MD23 Wolves - Sat 15:00 - 52,469
MD26 Fulham - Wed 19:30 - 50,717
MD27 Newcastle - Sat 20:00 - 52,187
MD29 Forest - Wed 19:30 - 51,965
MD33 Arsenal - Sun 16:30 - 52,523
MD35 Brentford - Sat 17:30 - 52,489
MD36 Palace - Wed 20:00 - 51,738
MD38 Villa - Sun 16:00 - 60,332

However, not sure what they count as attending. Some of those don't look right based off of what I've seen this season.
 
As someone who has a long journey, yes it pisses me off.
Any game after 5pm ko is out of the question.
12:30 are ok'ish but means an yearly start.
3pm ko 7am start home about 11'ish.

We had to return 3 games last season as the ko times was moved making it impossible to attend. Unfortunately for me, the more I have to return the enthusiasm faids . Get hyped up looking forward to going, then the game gets moved.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
UEFA ruining the league as usual. Half of the league is now in a UEFA competition, so they can't play on Saturday. Personally, I've been more annoyed by the constant late kick offs. I live in Asia and work weekends, and I feel like this season, every other week I'm looking at the schedule and finding out that the game isn't finishing until 1 or 2am. It does my head in. 3pm kick offs work perfectly for me. But not only are we often 5:30 on a Saturday, they've also introduced this 8pm bullshit.
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Europa League and Conference League needs to move to Tuesday or Wednesday. They won't kill their own revenue though.

Or put it Monday and they play their league game on the Friday night before.
 
I think if your not involved in Europe they need to allow games on those nights to stop the inevitable back log, tell uefa to fuck off, if people want to watch the premier league instead of European games so be it.
 
give it to gordon said:
As someone who has a long journey, yes it pisses me off.
Any game after 5pm ko is out of the question.
12:30 are ok'ish but means an yearly start.
3pm ko 7am start home about 11'ish.

We had to return 3 games last season as the ko times was moved making it impossible to attend. Unfortunately for me, the more I have to return the enthusiasm faids . Get hyped up looking forward to going, then the game gets moved.
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And we're probably lucky in this regard.

I think Everton and United played 7 home league games in mid-week last season because they weren't in Europe.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
UEFA ruining the league as usual. Half of the league is now in a UEFA competition, so they can't play on Saturday. Personally, I've been more annoyed by the constant late kick offs. I live in Asia and work weekends, and I feel like this season, every other week I'm looking at the schedule and finding out that the game isn't finishing until 1 or 2am. It does my head in. 3pm kick offs work perfectly for me. But not only are we often 5:30 on a Saturday, they've also introduced this 8pm bullshit.
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One of the reasons i gave up my season card was that I couldn't plan anything because of fixture changes
SKY really need to be held to account by all football supporters on sticking to the rules of how much advance notice match changes for TV is given
 
Absolutely - we might not be a standard case coming from Edinburgh, but any game on Friday, Sunday or Monday means no public transport home. A 1730/2000 Saturday also means no public transport home.

What annoys me is that the FA proudly talk about minimising midweek league games as they say they understand it can be difficult for match going fans - but they start the “weekend” at 1900 on Friday and finish it at midnight Monday. Anything in that time frame is a “weekend” fixture apparently.
 
jamielowndes said:
The 3pm blackout needs to be killed off. Its a relic from a different time.
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Sky and TNT will love all those teams being in Europe means more games for them to broadcast. Seemed like there were fewer 3pm kick offs for the league as a whole. There needs to be a common sense approach to the tv blackout and get rid of it.
 
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